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Stubby Gets to Keep her Leg!

stinkypup — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:40:49 +0000

Turns out Stubby is NOT going to need an amputation. Dr. Flemme really fixed her up. Her leg was super infected– really really nasty, but Flemme re-did what the emergency vet had done and to everyone’s surprise, Stubby regained feeling in her leg. She still has a long way to go to heal, she doesn’t bear weight on the leg all of the time, but she’s a happy little girl. She’s officially a “pet” dog now. We’ll see how she is in the winter. Stubby loves to run– she was one of our best sled dogs. Perhaps she’ll be able to go on a 4 mile run or just run freely next to the sled.

Stubs will have a Stub

stinkypup — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:36:15 +0000

It’s 99.9% definate that Stubby will have her leg amputated. Bummer. Before her leg can be amputated the infection has to subside, so we’re waiting for her infection to get better. She keeps ripping out her stitches.

Will Stubby Live Up to Her Name?

stinkypup — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:59:37 +0000

On Thurs. June 6, the Stubster got attacked by 7-9 akitas. I’m amazed she is alive. She has puncture wounds all over her and they may have damaged her femoral nerve. She hasn’t been bearing any weight on the leg and has a nasty infection in thigh. We’ll know in 10 days if the leg needs to be amputated.

Stubby Update

stinkypup — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:59:47 +0000

According to our vet, the Stubster had a Fibrocartilaginous Embolism (FCE). She hasn’t recovered 100% yet and it’s been close to 2 weeks. I don’t think she’ll recover 100%. This really sucks because she was one of our best sled dogs (and we don’t have that many good sled dogs). Stubby loved to go and was a strong puller.

Links about FCE:

Shit Happens

stinkypup — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:35:24 +0000

And I’m not talking about poop (we’ll, not right now). Right now we have so many dogs in the house that I’ve lost count. The good news is that Jake (Radar/Chester), the mystery dog, was claimed by a friend of the owner. I liked Jake. He would have made a great pet.

Levi has moved inside. Hopefully this will be permanent. He seems to have taken residence up on our bed and on Dudley’s bed. Poor Dudley was wandering around last night because he didn’t have a bed to sleep on. We told Levi that he can’t sleep in Dudley’s bed.

Roo is healing nicely; she too is inside. Last Sunday Greg noticed a huge infection in her groin area…not really her groin, but I don’t know what the name for the area is. The infection was nasty, but superficial (hopefully). She’ll be inside until it heals. Due to the location of the wound, she didn’t get stitches. We’re treating it like an open wound; keeping it clean and applying ointment. Hopefully Roo will be well enough to run a 100 mile race in March.

Now for the bad news. Stub-a-dub has a lame hind leg. We’re not sure what happened, but she can’t use it at all. we spent a few hours at the vet today and the prognosis is inconclusive. Either she had trauma to the leg and has some muscle and nerve damage, or she’s had trauma (or something else) to her spinal cord and it’s affecting her leg. We’re keeping her inside and she’s on some meds. I guess we’ll know more tomorrow…if muscle atrophy has set in it’s bad news.

Besides all of our sick and injured and retired dogs, we haven’t been out that much this week due to -40 temps. It warmed up tonight (-20), so Greg took 11 dogs for a run and I took the retirees in the yard for a 4 mile run.

Greg has been having fun at -40. He’s been throwing boiling cups of H20 into the air to see what happens—the water evaporates, but it looks like it explodes. Oh, and for the longest time we thought that after around -25 it was too cold to snow. In all our years of winter camping at sub-arctic temperatures it has NEVER snowed, that is, until yesterday—it snowed at -40.